tar crash when filenames greaterthan 14 characters?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1684.2690c9cf at hamavnet.com> young at hamavnet.com writes:
>I am running Unix System V and I have a tape that was made via tar on a DEC
>Ultrix system.  When I tar in the files the ones with more than fourteen
>characters cause the utility to bomb with an error.   Should not I just get
>truncated files.  This is System V (3.2).

The standard system V 3.2 will just truncate the files.  However, if you 
are running on an OS that has added some POSIX compatibilities (like SCO
UNIX), then the file will not be created and an error is returned.

If you are running SCO UNIX, a patch was posted to comp.unix.i386 to turn
off this capability back in April.  If you don't have it, email me and I
will send it to you.

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